In a society in which it is a moral offense to be different from your neighbor your only escape is to never let them find out.

A zygote is a gamete's way of producing more gametes. This may be the purpose of the universe.

But if you didn't have more urgent things to do after supper [in boot camp], you could write a letter, loaf, gossip, discuss the myriad mental shortcomings of sergeants and, dearest of all, talk about the female of the species (we became convinced that there was no such creatures, just mythology created by inflamed imaginations - one boy in our company claimed to have seen a girl, over at regimental headquarters; he was unanimously judged a liar and a braggart).

The greatest fallacy of democracy is that everyone's opinion is worth the same.

The purpose of war is to support your government's decisions by force.

It takes two to create a heaven, but hell can be accomplished by one.

An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.